We are walking in the forest. It is cold and softly raining, but we are well dressed for the weather and the dense canopy above reduces that gentle rain to a fine mist. I am feeling happy and carefree, I want to skip and jump. You seem contemplative, quiet. After a few minutes we settle […]

Part one For most of my life I have held back on being happy when people around me are in pain. And I so want to be happy! When I am in this way of thinking and someone tells me about a problem they are having, I jump in to fix it or demand that […]

for synchronicity… seemingly random events that collide in a way that allow us to make something great of them… A few weeks ago three things happened within three days of each other. Many students in my area of the university received their first marks and thus become aware of the value of academic honesty and […]

Tribal dance collective soul Permaculture garden with aquaponics Publish my caring science meets info lit work and apply for PhD + scholarship Start a creative business Increase my Ipswich Urban Forest activism and tree planting Last night I wrote a list of projects I would like to accomplish in a year. Then I used a […]

They said I was mad to plant milkweed… but here we are six months later hosting Monarch caterpillers. Now, I’m as ambivalent to all things American as any Australian ought to be, but the romantic tale of the arrival of the Monarch or Wanderer in the late 1860s and via New Caledonia has me intruiged. […]

Somebody has been pinching my mulberries! Chewing the fruit from the tree and leaving just a stump. Its not the chooks, they are safely away in their new run. Its not flying foxes, the tree is too small to support their weight. That leaves possums and rodents as the most likely suspects. And no mulberries […]